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April A Coppini (b.1972, US)

EDUCATION
1990- 1991 the University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA.
1991- 1994 Alfred University, School of the Arts. Alfred NY. Bachelor of Fine Arts

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Untitled, Imogen Gallery, Astoria, OR (May)

2017
Untitled, The Artist’s Room Gallery, Dunedin NZ (October)
Necessary Tempers, Antler Gallery, Portland OR

2016
Of Hounds and Hares, Imogen Gallery, Astoria OR

2015
New Drawings, Antler Gallery, Portland OR

2014
Recent Work, Beam and Anchor, Portland OR

2013
The Bees and the Birds, Valley Rowe Gallery, Portland OR
Charcoal Studies from Nature, Antler Gallery, Portland OR
Birds, Luke’s Frame Shop, Portland OR
Wild Refuge; the Threatened Biodiversity of West Hayden Island, Annie Meyer Gallery, Portland OR

2012
Recent Work, Annie Meyer Artwork Gallery, Portland OR
Leave Room for the Invisible, Gallery 135, Portland OR
Birds and Insects, Antler Gallery, Portland OR
Wild Domestic, the Albina Press South, Portland OR

2011
Charcoal Drawings, Luke’s Frame Shop, Portland OR
Bumblebees and other Small Heroes, Annie Meyer Gallery, Portland OR
True Animal Stories, the Albina Press North, Portland OR

2010
Preening Birds/Animal Husbandry, the Albina Press South, Portland OR
New Work, the Red E, Portland OR
Class: Insecta, Studies and Stories, Luke’s Frame Shop, Portland OR

2009
Restless Kingdom, the Albina Press South, Portland OR
Paintings and Drawings, the Red E, Portland OR
Paintings and Charcoal, the Albina Press North

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Untitled , The Whitethorn Gallery, Clifden, Connemara. Galway, IR

2017
Cascade Aids Project Juried Auction , Live Auction Selection, Portland, OR
Sitka Art Invitational , The World Forestry Center, Portland OR

2016
Facing You; An Exploration of Portraiture , Imogen Gallery, Astoria, OR
Black and White , The Artist’s Room Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
Cascade Aids Project Juried Auction , Live Auction Selection, Portland, OR

2015
Drawing Deeper , Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery, Chemeketa College, Salem, OR
Barely Imagined Beings , Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
Natural Selections , Jacobs Gallery at the Hult Center, Eugene, OR
Cascade Aids Project Juried Auction , Silent Auction, Portland, OR

2014
Revolver, Antler Gallery/Hellion Gallery, Portland OR
Spring Show, Rental Sales Gallery, PAM, Portland OR

2013
Jessica Bonin Paintings/April Coppini Drawings, the Albina Press South, Portland, OR
Spring Show, Rental Sales Gallery, PAM, Portland OR
Animalia, Redux Gallery, Portland OR

2012
Holiday Group show, Annie Meyer Artwork Gallery, Portland OR
Black+ White+ One, Antler Gallery, Portland OR
New Artists Group Show, Rental Sales Gallery, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR
April Coppini Drawings/Jocelyn Rahm Paintings, Beam & Anchor, Portland, OR

2011
Group Show, the Match, Portland OR
In Full Bloom, the 100th Monkey Studio, Portland OR
Creepy Crawlies, Good: A Gallery, Portland, OR

2010
December Group Show, Falcon Art Community, Portland, OR
First Thursday Street Gallery, Urban Art Network, Portland OR

2009
First Thursday Street Gallery, Urban Art Network, Portland OR

PUBLICATIONS
2016
Pulling Light From Darkness , Artists On Art Magazine #18, Spring
Pastorals Revisited, The Artist’s Magazine, September
The Artist: April Coppini, Luxe Interior + Design

TEACHING
2014
Charcoal Bees: 9th grade workshop , Portland Waldorf School, Portland OR

2008
Painting and Play Classes Ages 3-6, my home studio, Portland OR

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2010
Draw a Bee Project, the Albina Press South, Portland OR
Solicited and exhibited children’s charcoal drawings of bees as a fundraising project for the University of Minnesota’s Bee Lab